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Exchange hotel and airline reward points for gift cards. Use the gift cards to help with monthly expenses, freeing up money to be used/saved for vacation. Don’t have enough points to redeem for anything? Points.com allows you to exchange a variety of travel reward programs for other programs.

Can you take a nice vacation without using credit card points? Absolutely – and we took the vacation without using credit cards too! Example: Our hotel room cost $1,000 for 5 days in 2011. A room booked with rewards costs 25,000 points. You would have to accumulate 125,000 credit card points to get the room for…

Get your kids to help save money on vacation by drinking water. How can you get a kid to drink water? Offer them a dollar every time you go out to eat and they choose water over soda. This incentivises them to stay away from the sugar, helps you save money on the total bill (plus…

If you’re going to a destination location for your vacation, get a room with a fridge and microwave. Purchase breakfast items and simple ingredients to make your own lunches, allowing you to have more money for eating out in the evening. The third video in a series to give you ideas on how to save…